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Is this game going to be played or what? I’m hearing a 100% chance of rain throughout the night in Boston.
Hopefully not. I’d rather not see what Boston’s line up can do to Lerew.
Will Lerew be skipped if the game is washed out?
I hope that Lerew would then be skipped. Although giving Smoltz an extra day to rest wouldn’t be a bad idea. The trouble would then come if Lerew goes against Dice-K….ugh.
Nobody’s really going to be “skipped”, they’ll just do a double-header.
Actually, having a rookie pitch against the Red Sox isn’t such a bad idea. Like most teams (including obviously the Braves), the Sox often have trouble against pitchers they haven’t seen before, a la Davies a couple of years ago.
“Hopefully not. I’d rather not see what Boston’s line up can do to Lerew.”
Lerew is pitching no matter what. If it’s rained out, they’ll do a double-header tomorrow and it will still go Lerew, Smoltz and Hudson. They’ll do whatever it takes to get all three games in since this is the only time the Braves go to Boston this season.
I’m not afraid of anyone. Bring it on. Playing the good teams is what’s fun.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2875004
RIP Mike V, the LSU mascot. May he eat tons of corndogs in Tiger heaven.
Game’s rained out….. Doubleheader tomorrow.
ESPN says day/nite dblheader tom. with the second game at 7:30 eastern.
Ububba, I appreciate your sentiment, and I’m not afraid of Daisuke Matsuzaka. He throws way too many meatballs.
However, on the other hand, I’m very afraid of Jason Bergmann.
Will any of these games be played on ESPN or Fox? I’d like to get Pete and Skip for one game.
Bring on the Red Sox. I ain’t skrrrrd.
It looks like one game on SS and two on TBS. The second doubleheader and Sunday’s game will be on TBS.
Now for the hard part:
GO YANKEES!
Lerew versus Matsuzaka.
Dear God.
Yay, the braves vs sox on TBS. My weekend will have at least 4+ hours of quality entertainment.
By the way, this is weird and probably has no more substance than the stuff at MLBtraderumors, but our good friends at Chop-n-Change have a pretty good story. Everybody’s favorite Ken Rosenthal noticed that Troy Percival (still only 37 years old) wants to make a comeback and has been hitting 97 on the gun recently. Chop-n-Change thinks Schuerholz might be able to grab him, especially since he shares an agent with Tim Hudson.
We’ll see.
By the way, this is weird and probably has no more substance than the stuff at MLBtraderumors, but our good friends at Chop-n-Change have a pretty good story. Everybody’s favorite Ken Rosenthal noticed that Troy Percival (still only 37 years old) wants to make a comeback and has been hitting 97 on the gun recently. Chop-n-Change thinks Schuerholz might be able to grab him, especially since he shares an agent with Tim Hudson.
We’ll see.
“Lerew versus Matsuzaka.”
Is that what it now? It’s not still Lerew/whoever and Smoltz/Matsuzaka?
DOB posted this on his blog a little while ago. I haven’t seen anyone mention it on here, so I thought I’d copy it:
But THIS ALSO JUST IN: Gonzalez MRI results negative, which is, of course, positive. Means nothing out of ordinary, not even inflammation showed up in the MRI of his elbow, which was done with contrast, meaning dye was injected into the joint to give a better, more detailed view for the MRI pictures.
Braves said there was really no reason to test anything else, since he has no shoulder pain, etc.
No plan yet for when he’ll start throwing, but probably real soon. Bobby doesn’t know if he’ll go pitch in minor league games, said they haven’t decided all that yet. They just got the results back about an hour or so ago.
A good Gonzo development, one supposes.
Another Is-Smoltz-HOF-Worthy? Story:
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/braves/stories/2007/05/18/0519smoltz.html
Jason Bergmann placed on DL.
http://www.hendersonvillenews.com/article/20070518/APS/705181647/RHP_Bergmann_latest_Nationals_starter_to_go_on_DL
Now he goes on the DL.
No Braves, no NHL playoffs, guess I gotta root for Andy Pettitte tonight.
Per the official site, Smoltz will start the late game against Hansack. The reasoning is there is still a chance of rain tomorrow afternoon and they didn’t want to take the chance of the game starting and then a delay knocking Smoltz out.
I was supposed to go to tonights game, so looks like I’m going to tomorrow night’s contest
Well, I wish Jason Bergmann the best, but I hope he never ever faces the Braves again. As I’ve mentioned, he frightens me no end.
Smoltz, though, is the epitome of what the Hall should be. It shouldn’t just be a collection of milestone-reachers or counting stats-collectors: it should be a place where we enshrine the people who transcended the game. The milestone numbers are quick-n-dirty ways of separating the men from the boys, but when the chips are down the Hall should be the guys you’d want on your sandlot team in Heaven.
And I’d want Smoltz for innings 1-8, and Mariano in the 9th.
How ’bout 1996 Smoltz for innings 1-8, then 2003 Smoltz for the 9th?
Hear hear, ububba!
Plus, Smoltz is a truly unique case, something the Hall of Fame was practically made for.
Oh well, Mets won 3-2.
Talk about a mixed message.
Bad: Mets win, gain half game.
Good: Yankees lose. As the Sports Guy said on ESPN today, this would’ve never happened to the Yanks if Steinbrenner was still alive.
Sheesh, the Mets, Phillies and Marlins all won. The Phillies are creeping up, only 4.5 games back of the Braves. Why do they get the Blue Jays and the Braves the Red Sox?
Yankees 10.0 games behind the Red Sox. They are so done.
Because Phillies-Blue Jays is such a “natural rivalry”, that’s why. A dumb innovation, attached to an already bad idea.
And ESPN still has Smoltz/ Matsuzaka for Game 1 tomorrow.
The Yankees suck.
The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles has scanned and posted issues of Baseball Magazine from 1909-1918 in .pdf format. Lots of Braves stuff, well organized in a searchable database. You can read the wonderfully flowery articles that originally accompanied all those old pictures of Stallings, etc. Way cool. (via metafilter)
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Here’s a link to a searchable database of Baseball Magazine from 1909-1918. Lots of fun Braves stuff.
http://www.aafla.org/5va/baseballmagazine_frmst.htm
Have anybody mentioned it? It will be Sosa v Davies on Tuesday. Probably will see Perez v James and Glavine v Smoltz for the following two games.
urlhix, what a great find! Here’s an excerpt from the account of the 1914 Miracle Braves WS win over the A’s:
“The worst feature of the funeral was the falling-off in generalship and trickery. Never before have the Athletics been converted into little monkeys when it came to heady plays on bases at the time of need. When the double-steal came off in Game 1; when Deal made that steal of third in Game 2 — when those two plays were pulled — what was the use of longer hugging a delusion and a phantom? Of course, that was nothing much. Nor were the other incidents of the series. Except that the invincible champions were outgeneraled, outbatted, outrun, outcaught, outpitched, and outlasted, they did very well, very well indeed.
Of course, the form-players are still emitting the anguished yoop about the terrible reversal of the dope, the flirty tolly of the figures. Something in that, very possibly.”
It’s hard to discern, but it sounds like the author, one W.A. Phelon, thought the fix was in. I’m grinning from ear to ear reading this. Thanks!
It’s been a while since I’ve read sentences in English and have no idea what I just read.